Billiard-cue-tip fastener.



PATENTED MAY 9, 1905.

H. SBELINGER. BILLIARD CUE TIP PASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28, 1903.

Nirnn STATES Patented May 9, 1905.

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BILLlARD-CUE-TIP FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,676, dated May 9, 1905.

Original application filed October 28, 1302 l Serial No. 129,169. Divided and this application filed May 28, 1903. Serial No. 159.148.

To all whont it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY SEELINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Billiard-Oue-Tip Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in billiard-cue tips, and has especial reference to devices which will removably secure the tip to the end of the cue.

The invention has for its object to provide a construction by means of which a tip can be readily secured to and removed from the end of a cue, dispensing with a ferrule and preventing the leather from becoming detached.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which similar figures of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a view of a billiard-cue provided with a removable tip in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing in longitudinal section the end portion of a cue and parts removably securing the tip to the cue. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the tip and its securing means detached from the cue.

1 indicates a cue of any suitable form havin in its tip end an oblong socket 2, centrally ocated in the cue.

3 indicates a member consisting of a cylindrical screw-threaded head 4 of less diameter than the end of the cue against which it rests and having a tang or projection 5, which is driven into the socket 2 and holds the member 3 in place, as shown in Fig. 2. To aid in holding the member 3 in place, the tang 5 may be formed with suitable projections or excrescences, such as 6, which when the tang is driven into the socket 2 will be forced into recesses 7 in the sides of the socket 2. By this means a screw-thread connection between the tang and socket is avoided.

Screwed upon the screw-threaded head 4 of member 3 is a cylindrical hollow internallyscrew-threaded member 8 in the form of a cap of the same diameter as the end of the cue, so that its external wall is in alinement with the outer surface of the cue. The top 9 of the cap or member 8 is closed, with the exception of a central circular opening 10, and on the inside of the top 9 adjacent to the opening 10 there is a circular recess or shouldered portion 11, corresponding to a circular recess or seat 12 in the top of the head 4 of member 3. Seated in the recess formed by the recesses 11 and 12 is located the proj ected portions of head 13 of a staple having several vertical prongs 14, which project through the opening 10, ring 10 and an opening 15 in a disk 16, of suitable material, resting on the head 9 of member 8 and cemented thereto.

17 is the leather tip formed on its flat side with a circular recess 18, having at its bottom a peripheral groove or slot 19.

To secure the leather tip 17 to the end of the cue, an oval or curved shaped anvil 20 is provided, which is pressed into the recess 18, its tapering circumferential edge 21 being pushed into the correspondingly-shaped slot 19 and securely holding the anvil 20 in place. The tip 17 being pressed against the end of the cue, the anvil 20 will project between the ends of the prongs 14 and as the pressure continues will advance between and bend the prongs 14 laterally and outwardly owing to the flaring or curved shape of the anvil and force their points into the leather and cause them to be clenched therein. By this means the leather tip will be firmly and securely fastened to the end of the cue.

When it is desired to remove the tip for any purpose, it can readily be done by un screwing the cap 8 from the head 4. If the leather is worn out, it maybe ripped off out of engagement with the prongs 14, a new staple substituted for the mutilated staple, and a new leather tip engaged with the prongs of the staple, as hereinbefore set forth.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A billiard-cue, having a pronged staple secured to its tip end; a leather tip, with a circular recess in its flat side, said recess having a peripheral groove; and a tapering anvil with a circular flange, mountedin said grooved recess, and depending from the leather tip, and wedged between the staple-prongs; the

ends of the staplerongs being bent laterally into the leather 0 the tip, and clenching the same, as herein set forth.

2. A billiard cue, having its tip end formed with a central oblong socket, with recesses in the wall of said socket, a screw-threaded head of less diameter than the cue, and having a tang with lateral projections engaging the recesses in thesocket an internally-screwthreaded cap, with an 0 ening in its top, engaging the screw-threa ed head; a pronged sta le clamped between said head and cap, wit its prongs projecting through the opening in the latter; an apertured disk resting on said cap; a leather tip resting on the disk, and having a recess with a peripheral groove; and a tapering anvil, mounted in said recess, and projecting between the prongs of the sta- HENRY SEELINGER. Witnesses S. V. COPE, G. N. HOLLAND. 

